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Community celebrates Feb 15-21 Silicon Valley innovation week with forum on FilAm entrepreneurship
By Dulce Dizon Global technological innovation is fast becoming as diverse, fast-paced and decentralized as the technology industry itself. Science Technology and Advisory Council-Silicon Valley (STAC-SV) and Global Filipino Network (GFN) have joined efforts to host a Speaker Series event at this year’s Global Innovation Summit Week. The event is also in partnership with the ...
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Global Filipinos are going home, giving back: CFO
Are ‘balikbayans’ now returning to the Motherland for good? Whether it’s for professional growth, familial ties, or personal relations, more and more Filipinos are now buying a one-way ticket back to the Philippines, according to the Commission of Filipinos Overseas (CFO). And they’re not just talking about Manila. Thirty-one-year-old social innovation consultant and artist Jo ...
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Artist Clarisse Pastor-Medina uses coffee to explore her Filipino identity
By Cristina DC Pastor Where some of us see nasty ring stains, she sees a sustainable art medium. For seven years now, Batangas-born Clarisse Pastor-Medina (no relation to this writer) has been painting with coffee and staging solo exhibits with nothing more than her large canvases and presumably her Batangas ‘barako.’ “I like the medium,” ...